Kodi
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Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows. observed · 2026-10-04
Health v2 · maintenance only
69/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 15
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 286
- age_days: 5769
- days_rel: 354
- days_push: 17
- n_releases_24m: 2
Adoption not part of the score
21282 stars · 6613 forks observed · 2026-10-04
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-19, confidence 0.99
Kodi is a free, open‑source home‑theater application that plays video, audio, pictures and games. It runs on many platforms and can be extended with a large catalog of add‑ons.
Use cases
- play local video files on my TV
- stream music from a network share to a speaker system
- watch live TV with a PVR backend
- browse and view my photo collection on a big screen
- install add‑ons to stream online video services
When to choose
- You need a cross‑platform media player with a 10‑foot UI for living‑room use
- You want extensive skinning and add‑on ecosystem
- You require support for a wide range of audio/video codecs out of the box
When to avoid
- You need DRM‑protected streaming services that Kodi does not support natively
- You require a lightweight player with minimal resource usage
- You need a commercial support contract
Facets
application · maturity active
video-processing audio-processing streaming gui file-system media windows bsd home-theater media-center entertainment-hub skin-engine add-on-support linux macos android ios tvos
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc · fetched 2026-10-04 · 02c6ca8323b7
- homepage: https://kodi.tv/ · fetched 2026-10-05 · e44755a7a5b0
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/about · fetched 2026-10-05 · 33f880e9c7bb
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/about/sponsors · fetched 2026-10-05 · 508f681bd6f0
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/about/software · fetched 2026-10-05 · 28fa89e87dba
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/about/contact · fetched 2026-10-05 · 1c7f019077c0
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/addons · fetched 2026-10-05 · ed196ddb160d
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-22-piers-beta-2 · fetched 2026-10-05 · d8ac1c897ced
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-22-piers-beta-1 · fetched 2026-10-05 · c06e2f7bcdae
- site_page: https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-22-piers-alpha-3 · fetched 2026-10-05 · f35a6e5523aa
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| xbmc/xbmc | main | 69 |
| xbmc/repo-plugins | plugin | 75 |
| xbmc/kodi-tv | frontend | 76 |
| xbmc/inputstream.ffmpegdirect | plugin | 86 |
| xbmc/repo-scrapers | plugin | 76 |
| xbmc/repo-skins | plugin | 68 |
| xbmc/repo-resources | plugin | 75 |
For agents
Data as of 2026-10-19T08:05:51.212177+00:00 · Report a problem